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Stuff I've recently saved to Pinboard.
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Under proposal, every adult would get between £50 and £100 a week regardless of income
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Special Services Group also offers cameras hidden in child carseats and vacuum cleaners.
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Over 2 Million curated icons, created by a global community
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Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket are all web interfaces for git. They all do similar things that add on features that aren’t implicit in git, like issues and wiki, etc.
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In the last few years, it seems web performance has fallen by the wayside. Indeed, with many sites now using frameworks like React and Vue, SPAs becoming commonplace and requests going into the hundreds, the average webpage is now bigger than ever, with 2–3MB pages being more common than ever.
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Up until recently, it was a pain to defend againt WPA2 brute-force attacks by using a random 63-character password (the maximum in WPA-Personal) mode). Thanks to Android 10 and iOS 11 supporting reading WiFi passwords from a QR code, this is finally a practical defense.
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The Doomsday Algorithm gives the day of the week for any date (and you can do it in your head)
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The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed.
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What we learned from the spy in your pocket.
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Software start-ups have a phrase for what Amazon is doing to them: ‘strip-mining’ them of their innovations.
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A ultra-light MacOS utility that helps hide menu bar icons - dwarvesf/hidden
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We’ve been using make as a build tool for one of our projects at HackerRank which is written in Go and it has been working out fairly well. In this post, I’ll point out a few features and intricacies of GNU Make we’ve used which eventually improved the overall productivity of members of our team.
